Normal game matchmaking (IT SERIOUSLY NEEDS TO BE LOOKED AT)

Snarfthesnarf·Mar 23, 2017·4 votes·694 views

"It's just a normal who cares?" Is what you hear in normal games after someone flames a less skilled player. I'm sure that will always be the case and I'm sure that there will be comments like "Who Cares" or "Don't worry, it's fine" but to me the matchmaking of normal queue games is in an embarrassing state. For instance, today I played a match with my good buddy. We are both in gold and we got queued up with three others that were unranked. I think of a normal game as a way to improve on a champion or to try new stuff out, but when my team of lower ranked players is matched against top tier players that is a problem, but earlier we were against (and with) unranked people that were not very skilled. THIS IS A MAJOR PROBLEM. (Here you might type, you're tilted, get over it. COMPLETELY TRUE btw) Because the matchmaking is currently based on amount of games played not anything based on rank or skill-level. This leads to widely lopsided gameplay where one team gets an easy win and a fun time, but the other gets trounced which I find to be a leading cause to my personal issues with League in general. Sure there are issues with balanced champs (tanks), but another major issue in League is the skill differences which I think can be easily fixed if the matchmaking is generated based on a skill-level rating and not a games played rating. This will most likely lead to:

Players getting better overall
A better League experience for players in the bronze-Challenger range
A way to draw in new players that have no clue what they're doing

Thanks again for listening to my rant and have a nice evening -Snarfthesnarf

6 Comments

wishbone25Mar 23, 20173 votes

normals are practice better than bot games in general , ranked are the real deal where trolls will make you lose he game in an instant or insta feeders , if you get toxic in normals who cares practice better , your not winning a medal in exchange for game experience , ranked if you get to challenger is a high rate in participate in lcs tournaments that is a goal

LOSINGISMYPRIDEMar 23, 20171 votes

well nobody care about normal game since its a playground to try new champ or trolling or just chilling . You lose nothing other then time playing normal game and ppl want to kill time trying new shit . so no normal game will stay like that and there is no magic formula to change it .

ZephyrDrakeMar 23, 20171 votes

normals have their own MMR but it's not tied to the MMR of ranked. The higher up in the ladder you go the better players you will play against. The only real difference between normal and ranked is that you have no idea where in the ladder you are vs in ranked where your you can estimate what your MMR is based on your rank and how much LP you are winning and losing each game

SnarfthesnarfMar 23, 20171 votes

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normals have their own MMR but it's not tied to the MMR of ranked. The higher up in the ladder you go the better players you will play against. The only real difference between normal and ranked is that you have no idea where in the ladder you are vs in ranked where your you can estimate what your MMR is based on your rank and how much LP you are winning and losing each game

I am aware of the way normals MMR works, but I don't see how a player in somewhat low challenger (156) is in the same game as players in gold. That seems kind of unfair imo

HäßlichMar 23, 20171 votes

You clearly are not aware if you think it's based on number of games played, as your OP said:

Because the matchmaking is currently based on amount of games played not anything based on rank or skill-level.

I know this is NOT how it works, because I have something around 2k games played in Normals and still see pre-30 players in my games when I come back from a season off of League (because it has to redefine my MMR every season).

ZephyrDrakeMar 23, 20171 votes

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I am aware of the way normals MMR works, but I don't see how a player in somewhat low challenger (156) is in the same game as players in gold. That seems kind of unfair imo

because the challenger player barely plays normals while the gold player plays it a bit more or just as little as the challenger one. If you don't play normals frequently then you won't raise your normal MMR, which is why if you are in the MMR range of where most people who don't play normals as much are it makes for very random games in which you get challenger vs gold vs bronze vs X vs my dog's cat